Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fencers, two wrestlers and one runner so far," says Claire Mallardi, the choreographer of a dance production intended to pay tribute to the Radcliffe Gymnasium. While it may sound as if Mallardi is organizing an athletic event, in fact, sports will play only a partial role in "Gym Transit...
Besides, choosing the unusual subjects of sports and a gymnasium for tribute, "Gym Transit" seems to surprise its audience further by reversing the positions of the viewers and the dancers for part of the production, the audience will stand around the track which looms above the dance area. Mallardi explains that this type of device is one of her favorite ways to create an unusual perspective for viewers. Last year, she presented "To Busby and Agassiz with Love," a dance production dedicated to Busby Berkely and the Agassiz Theater, which placed the spectators on the stage and couples doing...
Reeder says that she hopes the audience will be affected in two ways by Gym Transit. "First of all, we hope that they'll begin to look at sports in a different way--as beautiful movement. Also, we just want to get people aware of the dance program here at Harvard...
...innumerable horror stories, conjure up hellish images in the minds of out-of-towners. But while many crimes occur in the tangle below ground, the 81-year-old, 24-hour-a-day system faithfully carries about a billion riders a year, three-quarters of the nation's rapid- transit passengers. An average of 38 felonies are committed each day, only 2.6% of the city's total crime...
Since February, transit police have guaranteed that there will be one officer on every train from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. They have instituted sweeps of subway stations, a kind of underground rapid-deployment force that in 33 months has detected 9,000 incidents of crime. The current transit police force, which has 3,800 officers, is the largest ever for New York and the biggest in the country. Meanwhile, with subway workers threatening another strike, passengers are just hoping the trains will keep running. "The subway system?" said one young rider. "It's New York...